glossScopeNote

The glossScopeNote element contains a clarification of the
subject that is designated by the glossterm, such as examples of
included or excluded companies or products. For instance, a scope note for "Linux" might explain
that the term doe not apply to UNIX products; it might give examples of Linux products that are
included as well as UNIX products that are excluded.

Content models

See appendix for information about this element in OASIS document type shells.

Inheritance

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topic/note concept/note glossentry/glossScopeNote

Example

<glossentry id="linuxOS" xml:lang="en-us">
<glossterm>Linux Operating System</glossterm>
<glossdef>An operating system based on the kernel created by Linus Torvald.</glossdef>
<glossBody>
<glossPartOfSpeech value="noun"/>
<glossScopeNote>Doesn't apply to UNIX products that bundle other
kernels. Also, doesn't apply to the Linux Open Source Project that
work on Linux distributions but, instead, only to the distributions
themselves. Examples include RedHat, SuSE, and Ubuntu. </glossScopeNote>
</glossBody>
</glossentry>

Attributes

Defines the type of a note. For example, if the
note is a tip, the word Tipmight be used to
draw the reader's attention to it. Note that this differs from the type
attribute on many other DITA elements. See
The type attribute for detailed information on supported values
and processing implications. Available values are
note, tip, fastpath, restriction, important,
remember, attention, caution, notice, danger,
warning, trouble, other, and -dita-use-​conref-​target.

othertype

Indicates an alternate note type, when the type
is not available in the type
attribute value list. This value is used as the
user-provided note title when the
type attribute value is set to
"other".